[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] external toolchain: slightly optimize the copy of the toolchain sysroot

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Sat Sep 17 11:30:03 UTC 2011


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 Thomas> The sysroot of an ARM CodeSourcery toolchain takes about 1.4 GB of
 Thomas> space, but 1.1+ GB of this space consists in locale-related
 Thomas> information which Buildroot doesn't use. By skipping the copy of those
 Thomas> unused files, we save quite a bit of time while importing the
 Thomas> toolchain sysroot.

Looks good, except:

 Thomas> -			cp -a $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR}/$$i $(STAGING_DIR)/ ; \
 Thomas> +			rsync -au --exclude 'usr/lib/locale' $${ARCH_SYSROOT_DIR}/$$i $(STAGING_DIR)/ ; \

We don't currently check for rsync in dependencies.sh - Please add that
as well (same for the local package stuff).

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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